TEHRAN – Establishing an appropriate academic ecosystem based on the private sector can develop research projects, the vice president for science and technology Sourena Sattari said on Monday, IRNA reported.

TEHRAN – Over 5 million Iranians have got electronic documents up to now, the head of Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITO) Amir Nazemi announced on his Twitter account, Mehr reported on Monday.

TEHRAN – Tehran Mayor Pirouz Hanachi named top researcher at the 27th Research Festival which was held at the University of Tehran on Monday. During the ceremony, 47 researchers in different fields were honored, ISNA rported.

TEHRAN – The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plans to provide over 1,000 gigabits per second of bandwidth for Iranian messaging applications by the next two weeks, Mehr reported on Sunday.

TEHRAN – Blockchain technology can help improve the national economy, the head of management development department of the vice presidency for science and technology, Alireza Daliri, IRNA reported on Saturday.

TEHRAN – Iran’s achievements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics have the capacities to replace the country’s oil exports in the future, the chairman of the Iranian national RoboCup committee announced, IRNA reported on Friday.

TEHRAN – Over 250 teams from 16 countries are participating in RoboCup Asia Pacific (RCAP) 2018 competition, which is being held at the Persian Gulf island of Kish from December 5 to 10, YJC reported on Friday.

TEHRAN -- Tehrani citizens can sell their dry waste in the near future through an application introduced by Tehran Municipality, the head of waste management organization of Tehran Municipality announced, Fars reported on Thursday.

TEHRAN – For the first time, Tehran Municipality provided Application Programming Interface (API) for startups which attended the 1st Smart Tehran Hackathon, a gathering where programmers collaboratively code in an extreme manner over a short period of time.

TEHRAN – Iran and Azerbaijan are planning to create a new fiber optic route between the two countries, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies Ramin Guluzade said, IRNA reported on Thursday.

TEHRAN – A group of Blockchain experts from Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology is developing a startup which is to introduce the first Iranian Blockchain-based taxi app, Shanbepress reported this week.

TEHRAN – The vice presidency for science and technology plans to address coordination among interdisciplinary fields as a main challenge in the field of science of technology in the country, VP Sourena Sattari announced, IRNA reported on Saturday.

TERHAN – It is predicted that 30 billion rials (about $175 million) of nanotechnology products will be sold by the end of the current Iranian calendar year 1397 (March 20, 2019), an official with Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council announced on Tuesday, IRNA reported.

TEHRAN – The Faculty of Applied Science in Telecommunication, known as ICT Faculty, and Amirkabir University of Technology plan to cooperate in order to boost Internet of Things (IoT) projects, ILNA reported last week.

TEHRAN -- Iran should prevent exporting medical herbs in crude shape just like [limiting] sales of crude oil, the vice president for science and technology Sourena Sattari said on Monday, Mehr reported.